Hi My multinational IT company doesn’t allow any password managers and security team told me to memorize my account passwords. At the moment I am using simpliest of passwords on every account, in case of hackers want to access my account because I don’t want to make it harder to them :slight_smile: …

[image] ph00lt0: https://keepass.info/download.html Not sure why this is accepted answer, that download page has a lot of third party links that aren’t really of high quality. KeepassDX is the option we recommend for local storage Android devices. I would not recommend installing KeepassXC …

so can bitwarden. They also offer file sharing

We have an internal software repository but not a single password management software. I tried to reason with security team, gave them NIST pages, tried to explain them that no one can remember all the passwords and there is no way to store 2FA codes securely but they didn’t listen

So odd, but yeah hard call I would say. If I were in your shoes I would probably ask my manager to approve my use of KeePass, that will keep you a bit guarded. KeePass at least is offline, and you will not deal with any other parties over internet.

If I remember correctly it has a portable version which doesn’t require installation, right? Also, can I store TOTP codes in it?

This sounds like a satire of terrible security teams. It’s like they want people to reuse weak passwords, which is the only way most people could remember 30 of them. The security people I know would be overjoyed if their end users came to them because they wanted to manage long and complex password…

I even told them that I can pay for the subscription fee if they are being cheap, but nope.

But if I use a password manager on my own phone, it will be still a hassle to write complex passwords. Yes, it can handle TOTP codes, at least they are six digits, but my usual passwords which I use for my personal accounts are at least 24 chars. I am using 1Password for my personal accounts, but fo…

[image] Bhaelros: I am using 1Password for my personal accounts, but for business it is still problematic. I wouldn’t use your own account/vault on a business machine especially they’re running all the things you described in your original post. They will most certainly know if you’re using a…

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Yeah. I feel like I just gave this advice to someone else…

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